Marrying A Secret Zillionaire Happy Ever After (Linsey)

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He had a hard time imagining anyone but Linsey having the nerve to throw out a remark like that about Cruz.

“Linsey, Dad…” Jeffery said, ready to speak up for Cruz.

But before he could get another word out, Cruz cut in. “You’re right,” he said, his voice calm and clear, catching everyone off guard.

For a moment, no one moved. No one spoke. They were stunned that Cruz, of all people, had actually sided with Linsey.

Her comment had been a direct jab at his dependability.

Not many fathers would quietly endure such direct criticism from their own child.

assumed Cruz’s earlier agreement was just a passing remark, nothing more. Yet, he surprised everyone by continuing, “Linsey, maybe I haven’t earned the right to call myself your father. But in my heart, you have always

a slow breath. Years of regret softened the lines on his face. “Four years ago, when Myla and I first learned the truth about you and Carol, Myla fought with everything she had to bring you home. But me? I hardly

nothing, her mind drifting

that drew her in—an odd sense of recognition, but nothing

she found out Myla and Cruz were her birth parents, and even then, the only flicker of emotion she

had always been little more than a name she recognized. From the start, he had never been anything more than a distant figure, someone she happened to be

felt the kind of bond other daughters spoke about—the closeness she used to

Cruz speak to her so openly now caught her completely off guard. She hadn’t

everything else, the child we brought up ended up doing things to you that were beyond cruel.” As Cruz mentioned Carol, a storm of guilt and anger twisted across his face. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re our

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to keep your distance from this family, we’ll respect it without question. Even so, we want to

a tissue, dabbing away the tears that clung stubbornly to